Thanks for the list. I am using almost all those applications right now.

Saint of Killers wrote:

Apps? Hmm. I've grown to quite like Asunder as a cd ripper/encoder. Small, and simple.

Thoggen still stands as a great free dvd ripper/encoder, ripping to the free ogg-therora format.

GNU/Icecat works nicely as a browser.

Gthumb is always excellent for handling images, and doing a spot of simple editing.

Miro is of course, excellent, and empowering, allowing access to a great range of free content and news.

Listen or Rhythmbox as a music player/manager. Both do a great job, are simple to use, and have plenty of configurability if needed. My prefernce is Rhythmbox tho personally.

Mplayer is of course a great media player, with excellent built-in support for multiple formats./ Totem is pretty good as a general media player.

Xchat-gnome is of course essential for those wanting to keep in touch on IRC.

Abiword and Gnumeric are great and powerful tools, a word-processor and spreadsheet tool respectively, with plenty of options and compatability, but without the bloat of other suites.

GIMP is still a great graphics editor, etc.

Seriously tho, anyone who objects to having Frozen-Bubble in things needs their head read. :P

GPRename is an excelent bulk-renamer, handling files, and directories, with ease.

Devede for making playable dvds out of video files.

Easytag for manipulating the tags of, and renaming audio files.

Of the email clients, I'm only really a user of Evolution and Thunderbird, so I don't have anything else to add.

I'm also fond of gPodder, an excellent podcast catcher, and handler.

Audacity for the obvious editing and manipulation of audio files.

Tracker-search-tool has become a necessity to keep track of all our "stuff".

Also, don't forget to include something like Gnome-pp for those still stuck on dial-up. There are still quite a lot of people unable to get broadband for a number of reasons.

This is all that I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure i'll thin of more, but I see many of these as being an excellent base, and giving us a working, usable desktop experience, able to do most things right away.

I think it would be nice to have a LiveCD. once I tried Dynebolic and I liked some it's features.first, it comes ready for programs development. I see that this is my personal preference.I need to build programs and some of my machines have no Internet connection;for similar reason, I appreciated that it was CD, not DVD, because there are places where I can't read DVD easily.regarding the browser, I'm OK with IceCat, though I have not very much experience with it; really I'm text-centricand typically use lynx, as while typing these lines.Also, I think I could contribute a LiveUSB image; I did something similar to install the latest BLAG release on my newest machine which had no disk drives at all.

If I missed anything let me know, but what apps do you still use and think that would be good general purpose to include. Please send others if I have not listed them

puppy wrote:

1. The same level of multimedia support in previous versions.2. Firefox or clone of Firefox3. A CPU monitor on the main panel.4. Fast boot time and application load times.5. BLAG has been very stable for me in the past. I hope this continues.

I meant the compiler, binutils, make, autotools and -devel packages (in Dynebolic, there is no separate -devel packages).

Having looked at the Alpha iso contents you've posted I realised there is no chance to find room for such things; probably not even for i18n packages (I'd like to have Cyrillics at least). I think I'll need to make another spin or an extra CD or just to wget the repositories and write them all in order to suggest the distribution to my friends.

I would like, during the install process, a clear way to choose my WM. Because Gnome is slow, heavy, and I don't like to spend half the time of the install installing Gnome, to uninstall it 10 min after.

So maybe a menu with "Which WM do you want to install? 1. Gnome, 2. Lxde, 3. None"

I meant the compiler, binutils, make, autotools and -devel packages (in Dynebolic, there is no separate -devel packages).

Having looked at the Alpha iso contents you've posted I realised there is no chance to find room for such things; probably not even for i18n packages (I'd like to have Cyrillics at least). I think I'll need to make another spin or an extra CD or just to wget the repositories and write them all in order to suggest the distribution to my friends.

I agree. We need to have localizations other than English. Fedora does it, so blag can!

Presently the LiveCD I am working on includes GNOME, LXDE and Openbox. Most of the packages are the default that would be included with GNOME. During the log in you would be able to choose your preferred Window Manager. Would this be suitable?

Koko_the_crazy_koala wrote:

I would like, during the install process, a clear way to choose my WM. Because Gnome is slow, heavy, and I don't like to spend half the time of the install installing Gnome, to uninstall it 10 min after.

So maybe a menu with "Which WM do you want to install? 1. Gnome, 2. Lxde, 3. None"

I run Gnome on a 1.5Ghz laptop, and it's not "slow". How old is your machine if it's slow? I used to run BLAG 70000 on a 550Mhz machine, and it ran ok, not fast, but fine. Mind you, at 550Mhz, nothing was running fast.

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